Enlisted corp vs officer corps

No, they generally are all that. Uneducated directionless people with potentially shady backgrounds have been the backbone of armies since time immemorial.

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>american naval officer

>>31062042
Wasn't aware that washboard abs were needed to be a captain (O-6) in the navy...

>>31061750

No, they are fairly stigmatized.

>>31061750

>>>former military police

Put a bunch if just out of high school kids together in one place. Give 'em enough training to think they are tough. Add alcohol. Hijinks ensue and next thing you know you have raped Okinawan school girls and dead Thai traps.

Enlisted in the modern age are far and above more than "scum of the earth, enlisted for a drink" but they are a cross section of generally lower middle class and working poor America. Increasingly more and more generational service members.

General populace's idea that enlisted are criminals & stupid is possible hold over meme from Vietnam era/70's cuk propaganda and the fact most Americans don't actually know anyone in the military/never served. Vieteam era veterans WERE more likely to end up in prison than the general population but that dynamic has changed. Post 1986 and OIF/OEF era vets are less likely to end up in jail or prison than the general population.

http://www.bjs.gov

>unfairly
KEK. Even the "senior" enlisted have the brains of small children.

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The belief is slowly going away as the enlisted corps becomes closer and closer to the officer corps.

You have E-9's with their own jets (service chiefs) and protocol of an O-9

In the USAF a degree is required to be a SNCO.

You have E-4's making the decisions O-5's used to make just a few decades ago.

I foresee a transition from the classical E and O world in the next generation or two. The notion that just because you partied your way through college for 4 years qualifies you to lead soldiers is probably more outdated then the notion that enlisted are unintelligent savants.

>>31063300
>he enlisted corps becomes closer and closer to the officer corps
This is incorrect

https://www.armytimes.com/story/military/careers/army/enlisted/2016/08/06/mandatory-writing-test-ncos-launch/88040354/

Before someone got butthurt about the article it was titled "75% of NCOs can't read or write good" now it says "need extra help." The best and the brightest.

>>31061750
No, not at all. That however does not mean that the officer corps is any better.